Subject: Re: File extension conflict when working with git and latex

From: Simon Ruderich <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:36:28 +0100

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:13:24PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> Unfortunetely, we wrote our `make clean` task recursively. I think you
> can imagine what went wrong: The clean-task corrupted the repository,
> as it removed .idx files from within .git/.
>
> I lost work because of this ugly name collision.

Hello Matthias,

You can recreate the .idx files by running

    git index-pack .git/objects/pack/pack-<hash>.pack

for each pack file.

Regards
Simon
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